Irish firm, Voysis, manages to recruit one of Google's most respected engineers

An Irish company has pulled off a major coup in hiring one of Google’s most celebrated engineers, writes Pádraig Hoare of the Irish Examiner.

Ian Hodson, who was the head of Google’s text to speech program, has joined Dublin and Boston-based Voysis, a start-up that recently raised €8m from Polaris Ventures to develop its own voice recognition technology.